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IP Webinar
Sponsored by the PLL Intellectual
Property Group
March 6, 2012
Searching International
Trade Commission (ITC)
Material on EDIS
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern
(10:00 am Pacific)
Description: The EDIS training
session will walk participants through
the process of searching for, and
running reports on, documents
filed in EDIS. The session will
note useful guidance materials,
notification tools, and webpages
found on the USITC website.
The EDIS training is meant
to be a dynamic experience,
where participants are
encouraged to ask questions
and provide feedback.
Speaker: Jennifer Rohrbach,
Attorney-Advisor in the
Docket Services Division
of the Office of the Secretary,
is responsible for quality
control of over-the-counter
and electronically filed
documents in the Electronic
Documents Information
System (EDIS), the
repository for documents
filed in investigations
before the International
Trade Commission (ITC).
Course fee: FREE
Space is limited to 99 attendees.
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PLL Award Nominations Sought
PLL gives two awards each year, one for a newer member and one for a more seasoned member.
Nominations will be accepted until April 1, 2012. Self nomination is acceptable and encouraged. Please find descriptions below.
PLL Emerging Leader Award
The PLL Emerging Leader award is designed to recognize a member in the early stages of his/her career who has already made significant contributions to the Private Law Libraries SIS and shows outstanding potential for continued service and leadership within the SIS and the profession. The award includes a plaque as well as a choice of registration grant for the AALL Annual Meeting, the PLL Summit, or for attendance at the AALL Leadership Academy, to be used within one year of the award.
Selection Criteria
- The nominee must be a member in good standing of AALL and PLL
- The nominee must be in the first 10 years of his/her law library career
- The nominee must not have previously received the PLL Emerging Leader Award
- The nominee must have made significant contributions to PLL
- The nominee must show outstanding potential for continued service and leadership within PLL and the profession
Last year's winner was Cameron Gowan of Jones Day.
Award Description
Nomination Form
Service to PLL Award
The Service to PLL award is designed to recognize a member who has provided significant service to the Private Law Libraries SIS. The award includes a plaque as well as a registration grant for the AALL Annual Meeting or the PLL Summit, to be used within one year of the award.
Selection Criteria
- The nominee must be a member in good standing of AALL and PLL
- The nominee must have been a member of AALL and PLL for at least five years
- The nominee must not have previously received the Service to PLL Award
- The nominee must have provided special service to PLL or have a record of sustained service
- The nominee must not be a current or immediate past officer of PLL
Last year's winner was Joan Axelroth of Axelroth & Associates.
Award Description
Nomination Form
If you have questions or need additional information, please contact Sarah Mauldin.
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UPDATE: PLL-Summit III: THE PATH TO 2020: A VISION FOR CHANGE
PLL is pleased to announce that Jordan Forlong, Partner at Edge International, will be our PLL Summit Keynote speaker. He will talk to us about:
- The legal market upheaval
- How law firms can respond
- Opportunities for law librarians and knowledge professional to respond and thrive
Jordan Furlong is a lawyer and consultant to law firms on strategic and tactical issues. An award-winning blogger, he has been writing since January 2008 at Law21: Dispatches From a Legal Profession on the Brink , where he chronicles the extraordinary changes underway in the legal profession. He is an Honourary Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and Chair of the College's InnovAction Awards, which recognize and reward creativity and innovation in legal services delivery. He has spoken on issues facing the legal profession at numerous conferences, including for the Law Society of Upper Canada and the National Association of Law Placement.
Jordan is a former legal journalist with more than a dozen years' experience leading three top Canadian legal periodicals. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bar Association's flagship National magazine for a full decade, during which time the publication earned nine Silver and Gold Awards for excellence from the Canadian Business Press and an Investigative Journalism Award from the Canadian Association of Journalists. He also founded and served as Executive Editor of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association's CCCA Magazine, and held the position of Managing Editor with The Lawyers Weekly newspaper. In addition to his partnership with Edge, he provides media and communications advisory services as a Senior Consultant with
Stem Legal. A graduate of Queen's University Faculty of Law, he lives in Ottawa, Canada, with his wife and two children. We would like to extend a special thank you to Wolters Kluwer Law & Business for sponsoring this session. |
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MEMBERSHP NEWS
NEW MEMBERS:
Linda Anselmo, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, Chicago
Don Boman, Kenyon & Kenyon LLP Library, Brooklyn, New York
Carla Edwards-Hogan, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, New York
Kim N. Hurley, Thomson Reuters, Legal, New York
Deidre R. Mancuso, Kean Miller LLP, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Daryl Newhouse, Proquest, Rockville, Maryland
Sarah Sutherland, McMillan LLP, Vancouver, British Columbia
Mark Gediman authored an article on the Value of Law Librarianship in ALA Management
Rochelle Cheifetz, Library Director at Dechert, will be retiring effective April 1, 2012. We thank her for being our colleague for many years and wish her well. Career
milestones includeworking for Legal Aid, Rosenman & Colin (now Katten Muchin Rosenman). (before that at Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche) and worked as a librarian in Israel for a number of years. Rochelle has spoken at PLI, AALL, Legal Tech, and other meetings. Rochelle has been a member of the AALL CRIV committee and it's chair the second year. She has also served as LLAGNY Nominations chair and on the Corporate Sponsorships committee. For PLL Rochelle served several years as chair of the PLL Education Committee.
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